The best part of my daily life is using all the awesome web tools I love to blog about. Long story short (the story will be explained at a later date) I’m working with a bunch of talented people to create a pilot for a web series called Jenn2.0. The series is about a social media savvy gal kinda like me. Here’s a brief synopsis:

From the creators of the hit internet series Viral comes a new series
that follows Jenn, a web savvy twenty-something living in Southern
California.  Jenn has poured herself into her network of friends that
she maintains across the ether-world of Web2.0 social media
applications. She is reinventing herself into a media brand and
producing an online show, Jenn2.0. We watch through computer screen,
webcam, and candid follows as Jenn struggles to find balance between
her online personas and her ever-present reality.

JENN
A web savvy twenty-something living in Southern California. She is a
unique combination of social butterfly and computer nerd who has
recently found a way to put that knowledge to use as a Social Media
consultant. Jenn is single, but has just ended a serious relationship.
She feels like her Karma, as it relates to men, must be bad. She has
had trouble defining the right partner because she can’t yet define
herself.

DAVE
Early 20s.  Filming Jenn as part of a college project, Dave is
enamored by her but cannot get the words out. He is characteristically
shy but disguises it with quick witted jokes and self deprecating
humor.  He pokes fun at Jenn when he can in an attempt to keep her on
his level and within reach.  Dave is a close family friend to Jenn,
and knows everything about her via her digital trail.

IAN
Late 20s to early 30s.  Jenn’s boyfriend, a well-established business
man who is very work-oriented.

LARRISSA
A twenty-something energetic socialite who loves to interact and be
the center of attention.  She is Jenn’s “rival” in some respects,
although they still consider each other friends.

I’ll blog more about the process, because it’s actually very odd for me to be involved in something that is so close to my every day reality. What I think is even more strange, however, is that I’m practically living the script today as the production crew – NAS Productions, Rob Lewis, and Darren Elwood – casts for the series. Here’s what I’m doing to keep track of my notes on the various actors.

• I’m using my iPhone to take photos of the actors.
• I’m using Backpack (37signals product) to manage my notes, create photo galleries, and share my comments with the team. [I adore Backpack for this type of project management. The only improvement I would suggest to the 37signals team is to allow for embedding photos hosted elsewhere]
• I’m emailing my photos from my phone to the custom Backpack email address, which is extremely convenient.
• I’m creating goofy videos (using PhotoBooth to record and Vimeo to host) like the one below to document the behind-the-scenes for a making of the series type website. [Side note - I'm being overly dramatic to mimic Real World-style confessionals]
• And…I’m overdosing on caffeine.

More to come later, but I’d love any and all thoughts on the project or my process…especially if you have recommendations for even better tools to manage all this good stuff.

Jenn2.0 Casting Confessional from Jennifer Van Grove on Vimeo.

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